Sinner Quotes - Page 23

• We must remember to teach our children that even if others fail to be kind and considerate, we ought to be slow to condemn and very quick to forgive. We need not be tolerant of sin, but we must become tolerant and forgiving of the sinner.

  Theodore M. Burton

  Children, Judging, Forgiving

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• HARK how all the Welkin rings
  "Glory to the Kings of Kings,
  "Peace on Earth, and Mercy mild,
  "GOD and Sinners reconcil'd!
  Joyful all ye Nations rise,
  Join the Triumph of the Skies,
  Universal Nature say
  "CHRIST the LORD is born to Day!

  Charles Wesley

  Christmas, Kings, Angel

  Charles Wesley (1889). “Hark! the Herald Angels Sing”

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• Politics and morality are inseparable. And as morality's foundation is religion, religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect, and our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.

  Ronald Reagan

  Humble, Government, Order

  Remarks at a Dallas Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast, delivered 23 August 1984 at Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX

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• Call me a sinner, Mock me maliciously: I was your insomnia, I was your grief.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Grief, Insomnia, Call Me

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• The cross of Christ only triumphs in the breast of believers over the devil and the flesh, sin and sinners, when their eyes are directed to the power of His Resurrection.

  John Calvin

  Life Changing, Eye, Devil

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.628, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955)

  Flannery O'Connor

  August, Church, Operations

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• Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Fall, Men, Alarms

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2005). “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, second edition”, p.86, Broadview Press

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• My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here.

  Andres Segovia

  Death, Prayer, Heaven

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• I want to create no matter what methods I have to use. And you want to steal no matter what methods you have to use. Given that which of us is the greater sinner?

  Yukiru Sugisaki

  Use, Want, Matter

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• Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence--and with all that, a generous mixture of self-love, ambition, vanity, petty personal ticklishness, and a good many of those things which a man simply cannot do without.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Ambition, Sacrifice, Men

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• There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Giving, Heaven, Littles

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• Like no other illness, AIDS tests our ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes - to empathize with the plight of our fellow man. While most would agree that the AIDS orphan or the transfusion victim or the wronged wife contracted the disease through no fault of their own, it has too often been easy for some to point to the unfaithful husband or the promiscuous youth or the gay man and say This is your fault. You have sinned. I don't think that's a satisfactory response. My faith reminds me that we all are sinners.

  Barack Obama

  Husband, Gay, Fighting

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• If God requires of the sinner, dead in sin, that he should take the first step, then he requires just that which renders salvation as impossible under the gospel as it was under the law, since man is as unable to believe as he is to obey.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Men, Law

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1857 & 1858: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.316, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• Fashion makes fools of some, sinners of others, and slaves of all.

  Josh Billings

  Fashion, Fool, Slave

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• We are all sinners. We are called to a conversion of heart

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Conversion

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• You know, Sage, Jesus didn't tell us to forgive everyone. He said turn the other cheek, but only if you the one who was hit. Even the Lord's Prayer says it loud and clear: Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Not others. What Jesus challenges us to do is to let go of the wrong done to you personally, not the wrong done to someone else. But most Christians incorrectly assume that this means that being a good christian means forgiving all sins, and the sinners.

  Jodi Picoult

  Christian, Letting Go, Jesus

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• Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.

  Jupiter Hammon

  Forever, Sin, Satan

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways.

  Ron Chernow

  America, People, Wicked

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• Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone with our sin, living in lies and hypocrisy...He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Lying, Real

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• God did not intend that we should be cowards, or delinquents, or fools, or sinners or weaklings. He created us in his own image and commanded us to be men.

  Sterling W Sill

  Men, Coward, Fool

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• Prevarication, how divine! I always did get along better with sinners.

  Karen Chance

  Divine, Prevarication

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.652, Penguin

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• I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Philosophical, Sheep, Enlightenment

  J. M. Coetzee (2016). “The Lives of Animals: The Lives of Animals [Princeton Classics]”, p.22, Princeton University Press

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• The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Men, Reflection

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• The classical error of historical Christianity is that we have never started with the value of the person. Rather, we have started from the 'unworthiness of the sinner', and that starting point has set the stage for the glorification of human shame in Christian theology.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Christian, Errors, Historical

  "Robert Schuller, Crystal Cathedral megachurch founder, dies aged 88". www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2015.

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• ... the core of sin is a lack of self-esteem. ... Sin is psychological self-abuse. ... the most serious sin is one that causes me to say, 'I am unworthy. I may have no claim to divine sonship if you examine me at my worst.' For once a person believes he is an 'unworthy sinner,' it is doubtful if he can really honestly accept the saving grace God offers in Jesus Christ.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Jesus, Self Esteem, Believe

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